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Yet the love is there, the love is there — only it's as if it's so wounded it has curled up and gone into a black hole.
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It had occurred, it had happened, and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.
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A great sword pierced Sefton's heart. She too had loved Lucas with her own kind of deep secret love, and it seemed to her in this moment that, if he had asked her, she would have gone with him anywhere.
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Our planet is a freak which we shall destroy by our own wicked senseless activities in the next century. Our history will very soon come to an end. Now that God is dead, we are at last presented with the truth, yes, the truth remains, but it is on a short lead. Anyway, we are nothing and it matters not what we do.
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If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people in this story would have been entirely different. Such is the vast play of chance in human lives.
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Oh what a mad business, no good can come of it, only chaos, and not just chaos but evil. How did we gradually get entangled in such a terribly dangerous shambles!
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I mean he's honest, he sees the terrible things, he doesn't try to cover them up or imagine them away — the evil of the world, the senselessness of it all, the rottenness of us ordinary people, our fantasy life, our selfishness —
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If Buddhists think evil is unreal they must be mad! Thinking evil is unreal is holding hands with evil under the table!
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I wonder if it's harder to be good in this age?
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